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931.
by eloff 5y ago
I predicted drug smuggling via drones would be a thing when I learned about consumer drones 7 years ago now. Sometimes it sucks to be right.
932.
by eloff 5y ago
Different kind of engineers usually, but yeah.
933.
by eloff 5y ago
I'm not sure that's true. Even if they are never competitive with SpaceX you can't employ that many people and spend that much money without advancing the industry. The benefits are just second order effects.
934.
by eloff 5y ago
I don't like watery coffee, so I mix mine 2/3 decaf. I have 4-5 cups throughout the morning. It keeps it a nice, even caffeine hit.
935.
by eloff 5y ago
They should grow drought resistant crops that use less water, because what they're doing now isn't sustainable and will end soon. Maybe wheat, maybe some livestock grazing, maybe nothing at all in some parts.
936.
by eloff 5y ago
I'm not familiar with the Ethereum virtual machine, are these really memory pointers? Surely it's represented differently?
937.
by eloff 5y ago
Yes. Much more, even by very conservative estimates. Just probably not in our lifetimes. The maximum sea level rise will be hundreds, even thousands of years from now. In the absolute worst case scenario where all the ice melted, sea level
938.
by eloff 5y ago
I'm aware of that, which is why I specified when you want to move to the newer edition.
939.
by eloff 5y ago
Yeah, that is frustrating since there are no platforms where that would fail today, and it's hard to imagine why we would ever want one with 256bit pointers. We don't even use full 64bit pointers today on x64.
940.
by eloff 5y ago
I would prefer not to see that happen, I'm fine with as and the safer options as they are currently. It would be a big job to update all the code in the wild when you want to move to the newer edition.
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by eloff 5y ago
> How do these "established and widely accepted scientific claims" explain why oil wells are filling back up? Rocks are variably porous. It wouldn't surprise me at all to exploit a well until production is low, wait a peri
942.
by eloff 5y ago
I don't have supporting evidence, and I'm not about to look it up right now. I think you're in the same boat or you wouldn't have replied like that. I don't think it's controversial though, isn't it common
943.
by eloff 5y ago
If you detect it far enough away you can just spray paint it. Change the albedo on one side and let the solar radiation pressure push it away enough that it misses by a safe margin.
944.
by eloff 5y ago
I think shining light on unethical behavior does reduce its incidence. Do you have some support for why you think the contrary?
945.
by eloff 5y ago
That's a good analogy. There already appear to be bacteria evolving to eat some kinds of plastic. I don't think it will take millions of years. But it will also reduce demand for plastic, because like wood and paper, it will be ab
946.
by eloff 5y ago
I understand the concern about being free to speak candidly, but I think it's trumped by the need for transparency to ensure that if improper gatekeeping or other unethical behavior is happening, their reputation is also on the line. B
947.
by eloff 5y ago
I'm not doing great with names today, thanks for correcting me.
948.
by eloff 5y ago
That's a fascinating angle on dinosaurs and birds I've never heard of before, thanks for sharing!
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by eloff 5y ago
It's basically just that the Israeli ministry of defence has to approve their sales because the software is classified as a weapon. You can't conflate that with the company being an extension of the state though, as the GP did. Th
950.
by eloff 5y ago
Peer review is shit. It's elitist, it's actively anti innovation and enforces the status quo. Peer review should happen out in the open and not just be limited to academics.
951.
by eloff 5y ago
Buried hydrocarbons are not really dinosaurs. They're prehistoric plant and microscopic life for the most part. Algae, plankton, etc. I believe a lot of coal harkens back to the great forests of the carboniferous (sp?) Period, which is
952.
by eloff 5y ago
That does sound closer to the the relationship between the state and say a defence contractor company. That doesn't mean everything the company does is to support the objectives of the state, or approved by the state, but it does mean
953.
by eloff 5y ago
> Hopefully some will ask themselves why the "beacon of democracy" in the region is so ready and open to sell tools used almost solely to prevent the spread of true democracy. I think you're conflating Israel the state wit
954.
by eloff 5y ago
> Right now we are missing one of our best chances to end the COVID pandemic -- widespread vaccination -- because too many people are spreading lies about the vaccine on social media. That's mostly a trust issue. If you silence thei
955.
by eloff 5y ago
Yes, it was interesting to read about the historical context, thanks for pointing it out. I also think the contemporary interpretation of literature, or a quote in this case, often matters more than what the author originally intended - it
956.
by eloff 5y ago
Interesting. So he wasn't saying what people today think he was saying. Let me fix it: Those who would sacrifice freedom for temporary security will eventually lose both and deserve neither. - me, 2021 Doesn't quite carry the same
957.
by eloff 5y ago
> Not that context ever matters to extremist: Are you calling me an extremist?
958.
by eloff 5y ago
Benjamin Franklin once said: "Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety." I will not sacrifice free speech for added protection from terrorists.
959.
by eloff 5y ago
So nothing is memory safe by your definition then. Languages like C# are more memory safe than Rust because the uses of unsafe code are fewer and more concentrated in the runtime where bugs are more easily caught. I think that's a fair
960.
by eloff 5y ago
Good example! So mistrust of the government is probably universal in the US and just presents differently on the left and the right. > Having this opinion and at the same time wanting to ban guns is truly puzzling. It's irrational,

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